I don’t know if I should be happy with prelim results, but nonetheless, I’m thankful. Why is it that every subject is an A1, except for English and Comb Humans? Because of those 2, my L1R5 is 7 + 4 (7 is a rough guess).

In primary school, it was my English that was very good and everything else was terrible, especially my math. I remember years ago, mom scolded me all the way till around midnight because I still couldn’t understand how to do long division despite her trying to be so patient with my brain. In P4, I spent many recesses staying back in class while my teacher tried to help me with my multiplication.

Guess how I did division? I drew pizzas on my papers and started dividing them among imaginary people. That was until Jean introduced me to the rectangle boxes (models). For multiplication, I painstakingly tried to add everything up. I wasn’t very far from going to the EM3 stream after the streaming exam. Yes, it was that bad.

Since I started ranting about primary school, I shall go on. I improved bit by bit. My PSLE prelim T-score was barely 220 (the highest in class was 226 I think), and my dream of going to Presbyterian High was well, quite unachievable. So you can imagine, when I received my actual PSLE result, I was more than thankful and overjoyed.

Now, nearly at the end of secondary school, many things have changed. English is my weakest subject and Math has become my hope. Some things in life are just very hard to understand.